TNG Era Uniforms

Yeah, they were just modified over a longish period - the first season uniforms were given a collar and the piping was removed. There's an extra in the background of Sarek (I believe) wearing a uniform with both the collar and the piping. It was all done by some time in the fourth season I think.

I liked the bib from the TWOK era, but that's it. The red didn't work for me and the rank insignia was not obvious enough. My favorite Starfleet uniform is the FC uni. I also liked Picard's jacket. That lady with the TWOK/FC combo had the right idea.

Yes, this is very nice and I have always felt like it would be more realistic if the uniforms were more "uniform". I often wondered why the uniforms didn't include the color on just the collar and cuffs. It seems to me that would be more in keeping with a military/diplomatic organization. Of course, I am no clothing designer and I have not forgotten that the uniforms needed to meet the needs of an audience rather than the needs of a real crew...just mho

TMP was the movie Roddenberry had the most direct control over, this would have included the design of the security guard costume. Getting rid of that costume would have been the decission of the TPTB after Roddenberry was kicked to the curb into a "advisor" position.

I seem to be of the opposite opinion of a lot of people. I think the 2 piece TNG uniform is a decent looking uniform (that being said, the FC uniform is my favorite TNG-era uniform).

Probably the one thing that bothered me was the heartbeat stripe in the midsection. It looks too 1980s to me. It would have looked better to be straight across the midsection instead.

Now, I liked the color scheme of the DS9\VOY uniforms, but, I did not like how they looked more like a jumpsuit than a uniform. The FC uniforms fix that look. Personally, BESIDES just using the FC uniform from the beginning, if I were to design a uniform based on the TNG series uniform, I would have combined the the 2-peice TNG style with the DS9\VOY uniforms: making the uniform all black using their shoulder color scheme of the DS9\VOY uniforms.

The TNG uniform I had a problem with and a special hatred for, though, was the dress uniform that was literally a dress!!